Re: Reducing dummynet pipe size hangs system

2005-08-19 Thread Jeremie Le Hen
Hi Michael, > > If it should work, was it broken back in 4.8 and, if so, when > > was it corrected? I'd rather not take the time up upgrade the > > box to 4.11 if I'll then be forced to move to 5.4. > > There were changes in dummynet's configuration functions that, among > other things,

Re: Reducing dummynet pipe size hangs system

2005-08-19 Thread Pawel Malachowski
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 11:19:37PM +0200, Uwe Doering wrote: > There were changes in dummynet's configuration functions that, among > other things, dealt with protecting certain code sequences with the > proper SPL. They went into the CVS repository after 4.8. I can't tell > whether these fix

Re: Reducing dummynet pipe size hangs system

2005-08-18 Thread Uwe Doering
Michael R. Wayne wrote: Summary: On an old (4.8p10) machine, substantially reducing the pipe size on a loaded connection causes the system to freeze. Is this a supported feature? Did it usd to be broken? Detail: [...] Two days in a row now, just after 6:30, the box freezes, ref

Reducing dummynet pipe size hangs system

2005-08-18 Thread Michael R. Wayne
Summary: On an old (4.8p10) machine, substantially reducing the pipe size on a loaded connection causes the system to freeze. Is this a supported feature? Did it usd to be broken? Detail: There's a 4.8p10 machine acting as a firewall (runs only ssh and ipfw rules, hence the la